Craft in America Center Education Coordinator

The Craft in America Center seeks an Education Coordinator to manage its education outreach program, Craft in Schools, with local K-12 underserved students, and to help maintain and manage the small museum’s operations with a multitude of other projects.

Craft in America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the exploration, preservation, and celebration of the handmade and its impact on our nation’s cultural heritage. The Center is a museum and programmatic space with a library located on Third Street in the heart of Los Angeles. The Center generates rotating contemporary craft exhibitions (physical & virtual), research, lectures, education outreach, publications, and hands-on art workshops. Craft in America produces a Peabody Award-winning and on-going PBS documentary series. Visit www.craftinamerica.org for more information about the organization.

The Education Coordinator is articulate, proactive, disciplined, outgoing, and organized. The Coordinator will have experience teaching students at various grade levels and an understanding of standards-based art education practices. Knowledge of contemporary crafts is a plus. An undergraduate degree in art history, museum studies, art education, studio art, or a related field is required. The Coordinator should have strong verbal and written communication skills and design abilities. The Center has a small team and the candidate must be hardworking, detail-oriented, strategic, excellent at multitasking, tech savvy, resourceful, and flexible. The nature of the position involves various additional aspects of museum operations including but not limited to: library management, collections management, grant writing and reporting, budgeting, public engagement, community building, and exhibition planning and implementation.

Regular tasks and responsibilities include:

• Developing, writing, and facilitating standards-based lesson plans for site/virtual visits and workshops
• Administering virtual meetings and webinars with students and public
• Forging relationships with external partner schools, teachers, administrators, artists & stakeholders
• Coordinating logistics, scheduling, and communicating with artists, educators, administrators and transportation companies
• Creating and implementing hands-on activities for children
• Managing administration and operations for education programs
• Assisting with event/program management and planning
• Interacting and engaging with in-person visitors
• Writing and posting social media and website content
• Assisting with exhibition logistics including loan agreements and shipping
• Assisting with deinstallation and installation, packing and art handling
• Maintaining contact and library databases
• Planning and implementing library-related programming and management

This part time position entails:

• Working some Saturdays each month
• Involves intermittent travel to participating local school sites
• Requires moving/lifting up to 40 lbs. of weight

Salary commensurate with experience, $20-25 hourly

Please submit a cover letter stating relevant experience & interest along with a cv to: center@craftinamerica.org